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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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